Storm History: Lauderdale County, Mississippi

571 episodes, 973 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lauderdale County, Mississippi: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events: 973
Deaths: 8
Injuries: 121
Damage: $598 million
Episodes: 571

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

Open the live radar over Lauderdale County

Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Tornado	376	3	102	$82 million
Hail	247	1	2	$1.1 million
Flash Flood	173	0	0	$4.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind	104	0	2	$961,000
Drought	14	0	0	$4.1 million
Flood	11	0	0	$71,000
Heavy Snow	10	0	0	$1.1 million
Tropical Storm	9	0	0	$558,000
Ice Storm	7	0	5	$1.2 million
Strong Wind	5	0	0	$52,000
Heat	4	0	0
Hurricane (Typhoon)	3	1	10	$501 million
High Wind	2	0	0	$55,000
Cold/Wind Chill	2	3	0	$900,000
Winter Storm	2	0	0	$100,000
Funnel Cloud	1	0	0
Excessive Heat	1	0	0
Sleet	1	0	0	$200,000
Winter Weather	1	0	0

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Lauderdale County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Lauderdale County Every warning in Lauderdale County since 1986 Every county in Mississippi

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.